STREET TALK: 05.16.13 (asked @ MPC Library.)
If you had time for a special project, what would you work on?
Follow-up: How do you get the creative juices flowing? RILEY GRACE | Handyman | Seaside A: I would work on farming and growing my own vegetables. I feel silly paying for produce when I live ...
Forrest Theater
Forrest Day’s smoldering album The Second – released today at Carmel Bar & Grill – refuses to be pigeonholed.
“When people want to know what kind of music we play, I usually say highly engaging, stimulating and exciting,” says Forrest Day drummer Jasper Skydecker. “Those are the words I use because it is so ...
Peaceful Warrior
Scott Fujita retires from pro football atop a Peruvian peak in South America.
Of all the places to retire from a long and fruitful career as an NFL linebacker, Carmel Valley resident Scott Fujita chose sunrise at Machu Picchu, 8,000 feet high in the Peruvian Andes – after ...
Cooking for Solutions 2013 – Fish are Jumping
Seafood Watch updates keep eco-savvy consumers, chefs on their toes.
I never really thought of myself as the sea-snail-eating type. But the Monterey Bay red abalone appetizer at the C Restaurant & Bar is tender and perfectly chewy, its ocean essence counterbalanced by earthy black ...
Extra Helping of Squid — 5-13-13
Prunedale residents say 'Blood Alley' section of Highway 101 made more dangerous by confusing signage.
GPS for the PIP…Squid can sometimes be slow at adopting new technologies. Squid still uses a mortar and pestle, a flip phone and envelopes you have to lick to close. And Squid still prefers old-school ...
¡Ask a Mexican! 5-13-2013
How Many Mexicans Can You Fit Into a Single-cab Chevy Truck?
Dear Mexican: Where did the notion of adding an -o to the end of an English word and assuming it makes it a Spanish word come from? Juanito Dear Wab: “Anglos have long held power ...
A Mission From God
The famed Carmel Mission Basilica stands stronger than ever after a just-completed renovation.The famed Carmel Mission Basilica stands stronger than ever after a just-completed renovation.
Southern drawls, Brooklynese and rolling Spanish “rr”s melt into a united murmur as tourists shuffle through the gates of the Mission San Carlos Borroméo del Río Carmelo, better known as Carmel Mission. Construction workers pry ...
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Tarahumara Indians of northwestern Mexico are renowned for their ability to run long distances. The best runners can cover 200 miles in two days. The paths they travel are not ...
REAL ESTATE: By The Numbers 05.09.13
Real Estate
$580,000 Recent Sale 35 Cuesta Vista Drive, Monterey Built: 1955 Size: 1,846 square feet Features: 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2-car garage Amenities: Ocean views, wood-burning fireplace, fenced yard, deck, enclosed porch, granite floors Seller: Ouita ...
When Zombies Attack
Big Sur survivalist Tyson Curtis will be ready.
To prevent zombies from devouring his flesh, Tyson Curtis eats things that can’t taste much better, like fox meat, foraged thistle and acorn flour. To survive in a world where the undead can smell humans ...
Major Upgrades
Exploring the six best epicurean breakthroughs of the moment.
Two of the trickiest food-friendly properties to keep afloat finally have tried-and-true brain trusts in place. Two new and neighboring tasting rooms are suddenly the sexiest settings to try wine in the area code. And ...
EL CHARRITO
Top Tortillas: A look at – and taste of – the best corn and flour tortillas Monterey County has to offer.
Chart human history according to culinary milestones, and a few moments stand out. There was the introduction of cooking with fire 1.8 million years ago, crude stoves 250,000 years ago, and the transition from hunting ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 05.09.13
Divided Empathies Another perk of the failed “War On Drugs” that does nothing to stop drug use and creates a serious incentive for criminals to traffic, sell and produce dangerous drugs. (“Monterey stabbing suspect pleads ...
THE GREAT GATSBY
Literary Criticism: Baz Luhrmann’s problem is more than not showing proper respect for The Great Gatsby.
What if Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby didn’t have to carry the burden of The Great Gatsby? That’s not just some Zen koan-like riddle intended to inspire deep meditation; it’s a question about the way ...
Endless Riffness
After more than four decades, Richard Thompson’s songwriting remains sharper than ever.
“If you think about the number of songs on the planet written every day, it’s scary,” Richard Thompson says. “If you think about the number of songs written in Nashville alone every day, it’s even ...
Full Bluhm
Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers are endowed with an uncanny devotion to their craft.
Last winter, Nicki and the Gramblers were caught in the climax of a monstrous snowstorm in Wyoming. Through the flow of diagonally falling snowflakes, it appeared as though the snow extended from the front of ...
Language Arts
DLI Foundation launches plan to foster multi-lingual learning, keeping DLI at arm’s length.
In 1995, California Gov. Pete Wilson made Monterey Bay’s claim as the “language capital of the world” official. Monterey Language Capital Advocates, a coalition of organizations, was formed in the early 1990s to support Monterey ...
Hot Spot
Sex offenders cluster at Salinas motel; Supreme Court considers housing restrictions.
A concentration of sex offenders in an East Salinas motel has raised some eyebrows, and plays into a statewide debate about whether it’s constitutional to restrict where some sex offenders live. Seventeen registered sex offender ...
Real Property
Salinas plans to buy tax-burdened Chinatown building for homeless services.
During a 2008 property auction, Monterey County offered a dirt-cheap price for a Salinas building. But there were no takers. A property in Chinatown, a haven for the homeless and drug dealers, can be a ...
Study of P.G.’s CalPERS initiative returns to the council this week.
Pacific Grove officials are hoping for a legal escape hatch from a citizens’ ballot initiative they fear could cost the city millions. The initiative seeks to void a 2002 City Council decision approving “3-percent-at-50” pension ...
